Coin-deliverer.



R. HASBROOK.

COIN DELIVERER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24. I916. mamm Patented July 10, 1917.

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R. HASBROUK.

COIN DELIVERER.

APPLICATION FILED .l-ULY 24.1916.

Patented July 10,- 1917.

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ROY HASBROOK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HASBROOK PATENTS 00., INQ, CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

GOIN-DELIVEBER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July to, 1917.

Application filed July 24, 1916. Serial No. 110,911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROY HASBROOK, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Deliverers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description:

My invention relates to coin deliverers of the general type disclosed in my Patent No. 1,184,450, dated May 23, 1916 and used to facilitate the transfer of one or more coinsusually changefrom one person to another.

The improved coin deliverer constituting the subjectmatter of my present invention may be used to advantage in hotels, restaurants, ticket offices, stores, post-oliices, and in practically all relations where it is desirable for an officer or employee to quickly and safely pass to a patron ora customer a small payment in coin.

My invention contemplates a device of the general type above mentioned and provided with doors adapted to swing downwardly in order to discharge the coins, and means for preventing these doors from thus swinging downwardly except while the operator has his hand suitably positioned to receive the My invention further contemplates the use of a barrier so positioned as to prevent a customer or patron from removing the coins by taking them out of the top of the device, or otherwise than by causing them to be discharged in the manner provided.

My invention further contemplates various improvements in coin deliverers generally, for increasing the efficiency thereof.

Reference is to be made to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like letters ind1cate like parts in all of the) views.

Figure 1 is a substantially central section through one form of my improved coin deliverer, the parts being in their respectlve normal positions.

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary section showing a form of fastening for the supportlng rods.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective of one of the coin doors and means associated therewith for normally preventing the door from being opened. V

Fig. 3 is a perspective of a lever for carry in one of the coin doors.

Fig. 4 is one form of safety link, associated with the lever shown in Fig. 3 and used gor locking the same in order to control the cor.

Fig. 5 is a bearing safety link.

Fig. 6 is a perspective of one of the operatlng bars, for actuating the lever and controlling the doors.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary section through a part of the coin tray, showing how certain parts are connected together.

Fig. 8 is a View, partly in plan and partly broken away, of the upper portion of the coin deliverer, certain parts being removed.

Fig. 9 is a view partly in elevation and partly in vertical section, of the coin deliverer.

Fig. 10 is a plan view of the top of the for supporting the coin deliverer.

Fig. 11 is a perspective of a form of lever differing slightly from the one shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. 12 is a perspective of another form of lever differing from those shown in Figs. 3 and 11.

Fig. 18 is a perspective of still another form of lever, and the safety link associated therewith.

Fig. 14 shows another form of lever, and a different type of safety link associated with the same.

A base is shown at 15 and is provided with a concavity 16.

A pair of supporting rods 17. extend through holes in the base 15, and are provided with threaded end portions 18. Fitting upon these threaded end portions are nuts 19, disposed within sinks 20.

The rods 17 are further provided with end portions 21, and these fit into threaded holes with which a ring 22 is provided, the ring being thus supported upon the rods.

A funnel is shown at 23, and has a substantially hemispherical form. A substantially cylindrical sleeve 24: extends downwardly from the funnel and constitutes a continuation thereof, this sleeve having a portion 25 of constricted cross section.

Encircling the sleeve 24; and adapted to slide telescopically upon the same is a sleeve 26 of cylindrical form. Thissleeve carries an annular head 27 at its lower end, and is larly in Fig. 7.

provided with a pair of cars 28, madeby partially severing bits of metal from the sleeve and bending them outwardly.

Pivotally connected to the ears 28 are a pair of operating bars 29, which extend through holes 30 in the funnel'23. Each of these operating bars has a cross-section of U-form, as may be understood also through a pair of holes 29 in the upper end of the operating bar 29. This pivot pin extends through a slot with which a lever 36 is provided. There are two of these levers 36, each having bosses 37 extending I upwardly from it.

Two coin doors appear at 38 and the bosses 37 extend through holes in these doors and are headed up to serve as rivets, thus holding the coin doors firmly upon the levers.

Eachcoindoor 38 is provided with a pair of hinge eyes 39 and adjacent these are a pair of hinge eyes 40, carried by a disk 41. A pin 42 extends through the hinge eyes'39, 40 and thus serves as a hinge pin upon which the coin door may swing.

The disk 41 is provided with an annular portion 43 fitting into the upper portion of the funnel 23, and provided with an out- 'wardly' extending flange 44, which rests upon an annular flange 45 with which the funnel'23 is provided.

A lining 46 is provided with a peripheral portion 47 of annular form, and this pe- 'ripheral portion rests upon the flange 44,

the annular portions 47, 44, 45 being secured together and as a unit held upon the ring 22 in any appropriate manner, for instance by screws extending through "holes, such as 48 in Fig. 2.

In some lnstances, as indicated in Figs. 7,8 and 9, I prefer to make the funnel as shown at 49, and to connect it with the por tion 41 by screws one of which is shown at -50. ,In this event the lining is given the form shown at 46. That is, it is provided *with an annular peripheral portion 51,

which is bent down flush with the adjacent annular portion 44, as shown more particu- Near each lever 36 is 'a hanger 52, held upon the disk 41 by a screw 53, and a pivot 1 pin 54 extends through this hanger and also throughthe holes'33 in the safety link 31, so that this safety link is adapted to rock upon the pin as a center. A figure eight spring is shown at 55, and engages one end of, the safety link 31 and the adjacent portion of the disk 41, in such manner as to normally tend to swing the safety link downward upon the pin 54 as a center, so that the pivot pin 34 rests at the bottom end of the slot 35.

In some instances I place a guard 55 upon the lining 46. This guard may be of glass, porcelain or other appropriate material, and is held in position by fastenings 56. The guard is here shown as rather narrow, but it may be wider if desired. Its purpose is to prevent the customer or patron from raking the change out at the top of the deliverer, or at least to discourage him from doing so persistently.

In the form of the device shown in Fig. 9, the operating bars 29 are at their lower ends pivotally connected by pins 57 to cars 58, and secured to the latter are bolts 59 carried by the sleeve 24, and extending through slots one of which appears at 60. In this form of the device each door 38 is secured upon a lever 61, the form of which differs slightly from that of the lever 36 above described. The lever 61 has a hook portion 62 which is slidably engaged by the pin 34 in such manner that whenever the sleeve 24 is raised the actuating bars 29 are lifted, and each pin 34 slides upwardly upon the hook portion 62, and after the pin 34 passes a predetermined point in its travel the coin door drops downwardly by its own weight. When, however, under pressure of the spring 55 the link 31 rocks back to its normal position, the pressure of the pin 34- upon the adjacent hook portion 62 causes the door to close abruptly. The form of the lever 61 may be seen in Fig. 11.

In each form of my coin deliverer above described, the safety links 31 effectively prevent the coindoors from being opened, either by their own weight or by pressure of the fingers upon them, except when the sleeve 24 is raised to the proximate upper limit of its travel. If, for instance, according to Figs. 1 and 9, a person should place his fin- 110 gers upon the coin doors and apply pressure thereto the doors could not move. This is because the levers 36 or 61 could not rock, and any tendency they might have to do so would only result in causing the safety 115 links 31 to press endwise against the pins upon which they are mounted. Hence, the coin doors are efiectively locked at all times except when the sleeve 24 is at the proximate upper limit of its travel.

In Figs. 12, 13 and 14 I show slightly different forms of the lever.

According to Fig. 12 the lever 63 is mounted as before upon the pin 42, but is provided with a hook portion 63 which bends 125 in a dlrection opposite to that in whichthe hook portion 62 is bent, and a spring 65 is bent around the pin 42. Here the upward swing of the safety link 31 liberates the le ver and allows it to lower the coin door 130 which it carries. The spring 65 co6perates with the safety link, and tends to maintain the pin 34 constantly in engagement with the hook portion 6d.

In the form shown in Fig. 13 the lever appears at 66, and as before is mounted upon the pin 42, and encircling this pin is the spring 65. Here the safety link 31 is not connected directly to the operating bar 29, but a pin 68, carried by the operating bar, extends through a slot 69 in the portion 67 of the lever 66. The pin 34; normally rests in a notch with which the portion 67 of the lever is provided. When the operating bar 29 is raised the pin 68 slides upwardly following the slot 69, and the safety link 31 rocks upwardly at one of its ends so as to disengage the pin 34 and thus liberate the lever 66, so that the lever 66 can swing.

In the form shown in Fig. 14:, the lever appears at 70, and is provided with a bifurcated portion 71, having slots 72. The operating bar is shown at 29, and carries a pin 7 3, which also extends through the slots 72. The safety link is shown at 74, and is provided with a notch 75, which slips over a pin 78* and normally locks the lever 70 against rocking movement. When, however, the operating bar 29 is moved upward the pin 73 travels upwardly, following the slots 72, and as the end pressure of the safety link 74: is now relieved, the lever 70 can rock and thus open the coin door which it controls.

In all instances the coin doors normally remain locked, but they are released and opened whenever the sleeve 24 is pressed upwardly a suflicient distance.

I do not limit myself to the precise mechanism shown, as variations may be made therein without departing from the spirit of my claims.

I claim 1. In a coin deliverer, the combination of a coin tray provided with an opening through which coins can be discharged, a coin door for partially closing said opening, a lever to actuate said door, a safety link connected to said lever for normally preventing said lever from actuating said door, and mechanism engaging said lever directly and also connected to said safety link for the double purpose of releasing said lever and moving the same relatively to said opening.

2. In a coin deliverer, the combination of a coin tray having a curved surface and provided with an opening, coin doors located adjacent said opening for the purpose of normally closing the same, said doors being movable relatively to said coin tray in order to discharge the coins, means controllable at the will of the operator for actuating said doors, and a guide member having a general arcuate form and mounted upon said coin tray for preventing the removal of coins therefrom independently of movements of said doors.

ROY HASBROOK.

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